Establishing a Foundation for SAP Business Technology Platform

In previous chapters, you should have understood what SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is and how SAP positions it in the Intelligent Enterprise ecosystem. You therefore shouldn’t be surprised to see that this first practical chapter is dedicated to explaining the foundational elements of SAP BTP.

We know that you are eager to have a peek at what SAP BTP is, and we are at the point where things will slowly get practical. We say slowly because we need to establish the terminology and define the essential elements of SAP BTP first.

Don’t forget that this book’s audience is architects; therefore, we will not go into the nitty-gritty of every element—we would like to stay at a level of covering things that architects need to know to be able to design solutions and architectures.

Here, we also consider technical architects whose role may extend to creating a governance model for...